Editing Dragon (section)

==[[Final Fantasy]]==
Final Fantasy commonly features dragons as bosses and powerful late game enemies though that is typically the extent of their role in the game's story, with the exception Final Fantasy 14. In this game dragons are aliens who reproduce asexually, they immortal unless their eyes are destroyed and they change shape depending on their environment. There are no set rules for what the dragons look like aside from having some type of reptilian appearance, with some looking exactly like dinosaurs.

The main dragon of note in the series is recurring summon named Bahamut (a reference to [[Bahamut]] in D&D), who is always among the strongest summons in whatever game where you can use him, which means you generally have to fight him to get him. Bahamut's design varies from game to game though he's always a biped Western style dragon. Rather than breathing fire, he causes a big explosion. FF14 gave him an expanded role where he's actually a villain, and also served as a plot device who allowed for the game to be revamped due to him ravaging the world.

Aside from Bahamut there is a recurring dragon made of crystal named Shinryu who has the snakelike body of a Eastern Dragon, but the overall beast like features of a Western one, on top of having wings. In remakes of the 2D games Shinryu pops up as a recurring superboss, that is a boss who is more powerful than the final boss. Shinryu has the interesting distinction of appearing as the main villain in Final Fantasy's crossover fighting series Dissidia where he orchestrate a war between two gods, and his power dwarfs both of them. Nothing is explained about his origin between his debut in Final Fantasy V saying that along with a machine called Omega, Shinyru was sealed in an inter-dimensional rift because there was no known way to defeat him.